You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.